Gabriel Matesanz ✍️ Kidlit Author and Illustrator
@matesanz.bsky.social
Kidlit Author! ✏️
and Illustrator! 🖌️
And some comics 🔲
+Lots of museum sketches 🗿
gabrielmatesanz.com
and Illustrator! 🖌️
And some comics 🔲
+Lots of museum sketches 🗿
gabrielmatesanz.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Today is the day New York must decide between the smiley guy, the frowny guy, or the Metal Gear Solid character.
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today is the day New York must decide between the smiley guy, the frowny guy, or the Metal Gear Solid character.
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Say what you will about Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Say what you will about Dick Cheney
I have something to add to this conversation. As a substitute in a large public school system, I travelled to different high schools and saw the wide difference between schools that already banned phones and those with no enforcement.
I wouldn't like to work in a school that allows phones.
I wouldn't like to work in a school that allows phones.
I think people need to understand that without universal phone bans, as per a meta study done, about half of teachers grade 6 and up can't actually get kids to put their phones away during class and they end up having to decide whether it's worth engaging disciplinary action or to continue teaching.
August 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I have something to add to this conversation. As a substitute in a large public school system, I travelled to different high schools and saw the wide difference between schools that already banned phones and those with no enforcement.
I wouldn't like to work in a school that allows phones.
I wouldn't like to work in a school that allows phones.
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We entrust our city's future to the nearly 200,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors and more of the UFT. Now more than ever, they need a mayor who recognizes their value and has their backs. I am honored to earn their endorsement.
July 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
We entrust our city's future to the nearly 200,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors and more of the UFT. Now more than ever, they need a mayor who recognizes their value and has their backs. I am honored to earn their endorsement.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brian Wilson, visionary leader of the Beach Boys and a giant of modern music, dies at 82.
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brian Wilson, visionary leader of the Beach Boys and a giant of modern music, dies at 82.
Paul Klee so ahead of his time, inventing a contemporary upmarket fiction title in 1931
The Light and So Much Else, 1931 #abstractart #klee
June 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Paul Klee so ahead of his time, inventing a contemporary upmarket fiction title in 1931
#sketchbook
A lad enjoys the sun, a herald and warrior signal who is coming, a man enjoys nice lean in double denim
#watercolor #kidlitart
A lad enjoys the sun, a herald and warrior signal who is coming, a man enjoys nice lean in double denim
#watercolor #kidlitart
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#sketchbook
A lad enjoys the sun, a herald and warrior signal who is coming, a man enjoys nice lean in double denim
#watercolor #kidlitart
A lad enjoys the sun, a herald and warrior signal who is coming, a man enjoys nice lean in double denim
#watercolor #kidlitart
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Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹
January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹
I've been reading 100 Years of Solitude in Spanish on and off since 2014, and I just finished it. It's cool to see the annotations defining terms in the margins get scarcer and less frequent as I progressed and learned the language.
January 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I've been reading 100 Years of Solitude in Spanish on and off since 2014, and I just finished it. It's cool to see the annotations defining terms in the margins get scarcer and less frequent as I progressed and learned the language.
Hay hombres pelones más jóvenes que yo. Es decir, me enteré en este momento que ya soy viejo y ya viene mi propio tiempo de perder todo (pelo).
December 28, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Hay hombres pelones más jóvenes que yo. Es decir, me enteré en este momento que ya soy viejo y ya viene mi propio tiempo de perder todo (pelo).
I took 3 months off from drawing, Kiki's-Delivery-Service-Style. Here's a selfie as I am getting back into it.
And here's to other artists who have competing priorities like school and work that don't allow them as much time as they would like!
#sketchbook #watercolor #drawing
And here's to other artists who have competing priorities like school and work that don't allow them as much time as they would like!
#sketchbook #watercolor #drawing
December 8, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I took 3 months off from drawing, Kiki's-Delivery-Service-Style. Here's a selfie as I am getting back into it.
And here's to other artists who have competing priorities like school and work that don't allow them as much time as they would like!
#sketchbook #watercolor #drawing
And here's to other artists who have competing priorities like school and work that don't allow them as much time as they would like!
#sketchbook #watercolor #drawing
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REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT Ian Lockwood.
HT Ian Lockwood.
November 24, 2024 at 4:26 AM
REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT Ian Lockwood.
HT Ian Lockwood.
There is no sweeter word in the English language than 'backpay'
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 PM
There is no sweeter word in the English language than 'backpay'
#sketchbook #art more with the labyrinth kid
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
#sketchbook #art more with the labyrinth kid
Edo Tiger I saw at the Met + a girl from masterpiece theater
November 18, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Edo Tiger I saw at the Met + a girl from masterpiece theater
July 10, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Pretty much how working in animation has felt the past few years...
July 9, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Pretty much how working in animation has felt the past few years...
June 30, 2024 at 10:11 PM
June 29, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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June 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?
May 21, 2024 at 4:12 PM
remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?
A. G. Cook says on his new album that the new wave is being a little emo computer guy
May 12, 2024 at 6:47 PM
A. G. Cook says on his new album that the new wave is being a little emo computer guy